mspringut's profile picture. Founder, @Monumental_Labs. Building the infrastructure for the aesthetic renaissance of cities. Sculpture + architecture + urban design.

Micah Springut

@mspringut

Founder, @Monumental_Labs. Building the infrastructure for the aesthetic renaissance of cities. Sculpture + architecture + urban design.

It’s the mission of Monumental Labs to de-extinct buildings. This one is National Park Bank, 214 Broadway, demolished in 1961.

mspringut's tweet image. It’s the mission of Monumental Labs to de-extinct buildings. 

This one is National Park Bank, 214 Broadway, demolished in 1961.

I’m running for mayor. 9 stories in single family neighborhoods if you build like this.

mspringut's tweet image. I’m running for mayor. 

9 stories in single family neighborhoods if you build like this.

What’s your office look like in that scramble before the weekend? I’ll go first.

mspringut's tweet image. What’s your office look like in that scramble before the weekend? I’ll go first.
mspringut's tweet image. What’s your office look like in that scramble before the weekend? I’ll go first.
mspringut's tweet image. What’s your office look like in that scramble before the weekend? I’ll go first.

Point of clarification. The buyers of our “kitsch neoclassical lawn statuary” include The Frick Collection, Carnegie Hall, the Whitney Museum, major art collectors, and confidential institutional collections. Thanks for also bringing up some of our incredible investors.

I love the eternal tech bubble. This guy is just churning out kitsch neoclassical lawn statuary, but with $10 million in venture funding, including from Y Combinator partner who was Open AI CEO for one day and fired.

loomdoop's tweet image. I love the eternal tech bubble. 

This guy is just churning out kitsch neoclassical lawn statuary, but with $10 million in venture funding, including from Y Combinator partner who was Open AI CEO for one day and fired.
loomdoop's tweet image. I love the eternal tech bubble. 

This guy is just churning out kitsch neoclassical lawn statuary, but with $10 million in venture funding, including from Y Combinator partner who was Open AI CEO for one day and fired.


But here's the awesome thing: A robot CAN'T churn out fine art in marble because the material is so exacting and the required finish so elusive for a machine with limited tools and awareness. But a robot CAN churn out architectural building blocks and ornament in limestone with…

mspringut's tweet image. But here's the awesome thing:

A robot CAN'T churn out fine art in marble because the material is so exacting and the required finish so elusive for a machine with limited tools and awareness.

But a robot CAN churn out architectural building blocks and ornament in limestone with…
mspringut's tweet image. But here's the awesome thing:

A robot CAN'T churn out fine art in marble because the material is so exacting and the required finish so elusive for a machine with limited tools and awareness.

But a robot CAN churn out architectural building blocks and ornament in limestone with…

No, we can’t just churn out 100 copies of David by machine. The demands of marble are just too high.



No, we can’t just churn out 100 copies of David by machine. The demands of marble are just too high.

Actually the robot can’t. Still need humans spending hundreds if not thousands of hours with chisels and files and sand paper to make anything of that quality in marble. Yes, robot can churn out slop if you let it and don’t involve craftsmen.



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Once labor (and hence craft) becomes expensive societies have difficulty stockpiling their wealth in the form of beautiful built environments. Luckily, robots and AI will make constructing intricate and beautiful things cheaper than ever before and turn us into great builders…

It's difficult to claim that any equivalent land area of the USA is "richer" than France. There is more ability to purchase chattels, automobiles, use energy. But actually replicating the built environment of France would cost more than the entire GDP of such area in the USA

Empty_America's tweet image. It's difficult to claim that any equivalent land area of the USA is "richer" than France. 

There is more ability to purchase chattels, automobiles, use energy. 

But actually replicating the built environment of France would cost more than the entire GDP of such area in the USA
Empty_America's tweet image. It's difficult to claim that any equivalent land area of the USA is "richer" than France. 

There is more ability to purchase chattels, automobiles, use energy. 

But actually replicating the built environment of France would cost more than the entire GDP of such area in the USA


Happy to report we’re making a ton of progress automating stone fabrication and this is the future.

Am I crazy or does this actually look more futuristic than anything built today?

isaiah_p_taylor's tweet image. Am I crazy or does this actually look more futuristic than anything built today?


I remember what LEDs did to San Francisco

mspringut's tweet image. I remember what LEDs did to San Francisco
mspringut's tweet image. I remember what LEDs did to San Francisco

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